"What about your origin, your age, and your early experiences?" Hua Jiuxi asked.

"Sir, our country does not currently have an archival mechanism like that of Britain and the United States - what can you expect from a poor agricultural country? Even if he makes up a background, it is mostly fake, to be honest, there are not many people in our country who can write their own names at the moment, and they know their actual age. The inspector said in an angry tone.

Hua Jiuxi also sighed and said, "There is really no way to ......"

"Originally, this kind of headless case would have been dragged and dragged out, but now it involves youkai...... Inspector said.

"Yes, yes." This is the point, Hua Jiuxi asked, "Where did you know that it is related to monsters?" ”

"It's nothing more than some ghost drawing...... Inspector said.

After all, it is better to see than to hear, and only after Hua Jiuxi has seen these "ghost drawing talismans" with his own eyes can he determine whether it is an ordinary Huidaomen murder incident or a monster.

"It's a pity I can help you so much, I'm ashamed." The inspector whistled when he said this, leaving a young police officer who was at his command, put on his hat and went downstairs. I bumped into a person in a white robe who looked like a small boss, and hurriedly said: "I'm glad to be there, hard work." And he walked away.

Bai Lei looked at the back of this person, and thought to himself, it was really interesting, originally the poor people were more contemptuous of their monsters, or "don't believe in evil". This one naturally avoided him.

"Sir, Brother Bai is here." Xiang Ling said.

Hua Jiuxi exchanged a few words with Bai Lei and crossed. The little police officer on the side was left behind by the detective because of his courage and curiosity, but the three people who came were not three heads and six arms, eating human flesh and drinking human blood, and they couldn't help but be disappointed.

"Does Brother Bai understand the knowledge of on-site investigation?" Hua Jiuxi asked Bai Lei.

"I don't know anything about this."

"Haha, me too—but it's all said to be evil, and the rules of human society are not easy to enforce." Hua Jiuxi said with a smile.

Bai Lei stepped into the room first, and Hua Jiuxi noticed that he was followed by two strange children.

These children were less than three feet tall, looking like children of four or five years old, all white elites, with blue eyes on their big heads. I think it's also a termite monster.

The victim died in the living room, and there was no sign of a fight at the scene - everything was surprisingly calm. There were also some rotten fruits on the table of the deceased, which showed that it was not a short time before death.

The body of the deceased had been moved at least once, and he was sitting upright on a chair. When Hua Jiuxi walked to the chair, he really thought that the other party was just asleep.

The deceased was a slightly chubby young man, wearing glasses and looking like a petty intellectual. Such a man was supposed to be more rigorous, but the last few buttons of his shirt were unbuttoned—and folded haphazardly—and the fat white belly and the strange symbols on it could be seen.

"Do you want to untie his clothes?" Hua Jiuxi said to Xiang Ling.

"Just see what the pattern is." Xiang Ling said, "This job is handed over to you, sir, I see that this person has a lot of books, and I should be able to find some clues if I flip through it." ”

"Brother Bai, what about you?" Hua Jiuxi asked Bai Lei.

"Oh, I may ask the little brothers who live in this house......" he replied.

"Little brother...... Who is it? "Hua Jiuxi Zhanger is a monk.

"Termites." Xiang Ling said, "It is impossible for this old wooden structure to be free of termites. That's why I summoned Brother Bai, who lives with the dead 24 hours a day - and Brother Bai can communicate with them. ”

"Oh, that's good." Hua Jiuxi nodded, but he didn't know how far Bai Lei could communicate with those little insects, if it was feasible, it would save a lot of energy.

"I summoned termites here, don't you mind?" Hua Jiuxi motioned for him to be casual, and Bai Lei sprinkled some unknown powder on the ground, chanting words into the powder. The two boys he had brought with him also danced strangely.

The little policeman told Hua Jiuxi that the photos of the death scene had been taken and that Hua Jiuxi could move the body. Although Hua Jiuxi is also full of battles, it is the first time that he has fiddled with a dead person at close range like this.

He unbuttoned the deceased's shirt from the bottom up, and found that not only the abdomen, but also the left chest of the deceased also had a pattern.

Immediately let the corpse beat shirtless, and Hua Jiuxi saw that the pattern below was located below the navel and above the pubic bone - this could not be bumped into by Xiang Ling.

The pattern is roughly a concentric circle, with seven layers inside and out, each with a tadpole-like symbol. Hua Jiuxi thought it was a rare document, but he didn't expect him to know it. This made him excited for a while, because finally there was a case related to them.

The pattern on the left chest of the deceased is basically the same as the one below, but it is smaller.

"Brother Hua, what do you think this is?" Bai Lei seems to have made a discovery.

Hua Jiuxi put down the corpse and hurriedly went to see it.

There were already ant colonies like white sand gathered at the white base, but it wasn't what he wanted to show Hua Jiuxi—he pointed to the ground.

"There's a very strange triangular dent." Bai Lei said, Hua Jiuxi saw that this was indeed the case, the indentation was an extremely tight regular triangle, obviously not a table leg or something, but a sharp object.

"It's more than that, you see." Bai Lei squatted and moved his chubby body, "Here, there is another place here!" ”

Hua Jiuxi followed the two traces that had been found, and found the other two dents—so that they could be connected into a square. And the deceased happened to sit in the geometric center of the square.

"What kind of circle is this?" Bai Lei said with certainty.

"Obviously so-" Hua Jiuxi pinched his chin, "but why did the dead sit there obediently and be at their mercy?" ”

"So, maybe these marks were made after death?" Bai Lei asked.

"Is it necessary to perform rituals after death? Or is it used to dispose of corpses? Hua Jiuxi continued to question, "But the corpse is in front of our eyes......

"Yes, sir." Xiang Ling, who was in the study, suddenly asked, "Since it turned out to be the behavior of the monster, why didn't the other party dispose of the corpse?" There are so many ways to dispose of corpses, such as eating them alive - why do you want to leave them for attention? ”

Xiang Ling's question is very useful, Hua Jiuxi can't guess this question for the time being, and said, "Maybe the murderer's purpose is to lure us out?" ”

"Then they might have miscalculated." Bai Lei said with a smile, "The men and horses of the 'palace guard' have completely locked this place, and they are ready to hunt down any suspicious monsters. And the figure of the two of you will never be discovered. ”

"Why?" Hua Jiuxi thought to herself that she and Xiangling were walking around for the past few days, how could she not let people know her whereabouts.

"Hehe, those optical butterflies are following you anytime and anywhere." Bai Lei said, "For example, your car, because it is covered by butterflies, is as invisible ......as invisible to outsiders."

This sentence violated Hua Jiuxi's taboo, because this kind of behavior of not informing in advance was no different from a spy - although it was nominally "protection", Hua Jiuxi had no expression on his face.

"Thank you so much, Sister Pianpin." Hua Jiuxi scratched his head and said with a smile, "Then again, I can roughly guess what caused these four dents." ”

"What is it?" Bai Lei asked.

"Vajra, it's kind of something like that." Hua Jiuxi said, "Brother Bai, you may know that this is a kind of tantric magic weapon, and by inserting the vajra in various places, you can create an enchantment. ”

This Bai Lei did know a little, because he often dealt with all kinds of monks.

"The shape of the vajra is a triangular pyramid, exactly like the indentation right now. However, although the Shingon sect in Japan is also a tantric sect, it does not seem to have a magic weapon like a vajra......," Hua Jiuxi said.

"Brother, why did you mention the Orientals?" Bai Lei asked, "Are there any signs?" ”

"Come and see." Hua Jiuxi pulled him to the deceased, pointed to the belly and said, "The pattern on his belly, the kind of writing is the 'sacred book' of Japanese Shintoism - this is not from the mainland, it is completely home-grown." The murderer seems to be deliberately identifying himself, and this sign is becoming clearer and clearer. ”

Bai Lei laughed twice, after all, reasoning was not his strong point, and he only echoed two sentences.

"If I had given me time, I would have been able to decipher it." Hua Jiuxi said, "But there is one thing that can reassure me - that is, there are no people from Satokono this time." ”

"What is Pear Cream?" Bai Lei touched his head and asked.

"That's the main mountain of the Japanese Shingon sect, and it has the strongest sorcerers in Japan." Hua Jiuxi said, "But they don't bother to use this kind of native spell, and they haven't dealt with the authorities much since the destruction of Buddhism in Japan, so if they don't interfere, the odds of victory are much higher." ”

Hua Jiuxi has a vague framework in her mind, but there are still many mysteries that have not been solved - what is the identity of the deceased, how the murderer infiltrated the killing, and the motive for the killing.

"Isn't that still clueless?" Hua Jiuxi smiled bitterly and said to herself, "Xiangling, what have you discovered?" ”

"Yes, but not much." Xiang Ling came over with a stack of books and spread the pile on the ground, "I browsed through the author's hundreds of books. ”

"Well, go ahead."

"Like most intellectuals, he read a lot of books. From technical books to *. Xiang Ling blushed when he mentioned the latter.

"At least the type of book can tell a lot of information about a person, right?" Hua Jiuxi asked.

"That's true, but the deceased was not in the habit of taking notes, and apart from a few letters exchanged with the editor, there were not many words in his drawer that could provide personal information." Xiang Ling said, "Then I noticed that one of the more interesting things is-"

"There are a lot of books about creatures and plants in the deceased's collection, and then there is his habit of carrying blades of grass in books, and if it is a bookmark, it is obviously too many." Xiang Ling said.

"I'll take a look at ......" Hua Jiuxi motioned to Xiang Ling to bring a book with this kind of plant, Xiang Ling said that everything on the ground was all, and Hua Jiuxi looked at it casually.

"There are a lot of plants that I don't recognize." Xiang Ling said.

"Well, this... It's a precious potion that happens to be what I used the other day. Hua Jiuxi took a brief inspection and found that there were quite a few rare plants collected by the deceased, and they had a common feature - they were all vanilla.

"I not only have this inner beauty, but also focus on cultivation. Hu Jiangli and Bi Zhixi, Su Qiulan thought it was admired. Hua Jiuxi read these few sentences of "Chu Ci", and then said, "These flavored medicines are by no means something that an unknown writer can collect, not just a monetary cost, but must have extraordinary means or relationships!" ”

"So the dead themselves are also related to youkai?" Bai Lei asked.

Hua Jiuxi nodded: "Brother Bai, the ants you summoned have all climbed to my feet." "Although I have been dealing with insects, I am still quite terrible in the face of this dense termite.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Bai Lei smiled, and let the termites pile up in one place, like a small mountain. He then ordered the two boys to have them confront the termites.

"Termites can't understand us, but they can understand my two little brothers — they can even be interpreters." Bai Lei saw that Hua Jiuxi and the two didn't understand, and explained, "Our clan has a human form, and there are also people who are so close to insects, like me, they can't communicate directly with termites, but this small ant-man can act as a big and a small tongue man." ”

"So do termites really have language?" Hua Jiuxi asked.

"It's not a language, but it's okay to speak like a child." Bai Lei said.

"Alright." Suddenly, a child's voice sounded, and it was one of the white boys. He first bowed to Hua Jiuxi and the others, and then said, "The termites said that there are a lot of medicinal herbs in this person's residence, and they can't stand it—this group in front of them is from the neighbors. So on the day of the accident, no one witnessed it. ”

Hua Jiuxi was disappointed for a while, and Bai Lei said with a smile: "I didn't help, you two kowtow." ”

Hua Jiuxi hurriedly said "don't mind", stopped the two children, and still wanted to thank Bai Lei. But I heard him say: "One of these two little guys is called Bai Yi, and the other is called Bai Bing." They can do a lot of things, their legs and feet are fast, and their noses are smart, so leave it to Brother Hua as a herald! ”

Seeing Hua Jiuxi's embarrassed face, Bai Lei said: "They don't have much money, and they can find food by themselves......"

Hua Jiuxi didn't want to brush off his kindness, so he accepted the two children. A number of pieces of evidence were then sealed. He sent for the body to be carried into his home for further examination.

In the car returning home, Hua Jiuxi suddenly had a question: "Xiangling, I seem to have missed one thing-you saw those apples, right?" ”

"Sir, you want to ask about the decay of corpses?" Xiang Ling immediately understood.

"Yes, the apple is very corrupt, but the corpse doesn't even have a spot." Hua Jiuxi said, "But I can see that no one has embalmed him." ”

"Maybe it's a long-term use of fairy grass." Xiang Ling said.

"Or—the dead aren't human either?" Hua Jiuxi regretted that she had only thought of this question now.

"I'll have to ask the old man to do an autopsy."

The Worm Tianzi was simply on call, and as soon as he came, he talked to Xiang Ling with or without a match-as if the two were very familiar. Xiang Ling still has that respectful but cold attitude towards this old man.

In order to prevent others from stealing the body, Hua Jiuxi and others put it in the basement. Hua Jiuxi didn't know what this building was used for before - like all murderous mansions, it had a huge, dusty basement.

Originally, Xiang Ling wanted to summon Leng Long to preserve the corpse, but it did not show any signs of corruption, so naturally there was no need for this.

The insect Tianzi carried the box, and somewhere to get a very ill-fitting white coat - he saw that the doctors were all like this all these years, and he was not exempt from vulgarity.

"Senior brother, tell me first if this thing is a human or a monster?" Hua Jiuxi used his hand to prop up the platform where the corpse was placed, and he had seen this old man a lot, and he didn't feel scared anymore.

"It's a little difficult - do you see the demonic spirit in him?" The insect Tianzi looked at it for a while and asked Hua Jiuxi.

Hua Jiuxi shook his head.

"Your inspiration is one of the best among warlocks, and you can't smell a trace of demonic energy, so—" said the Worm Son, "I can't help it." ”

"We all know that powerful youkai have real human bodies—bodies that don't return to their original form even after death. However, I have another way......" Worm Tianzi said that he was addicted to smoking, and he was busy touching his body.

"Don't bring any tobacco leaves?" Xiang Ling asked him.

The Worm Tianzi responded remorsefully and coughed twice: "One is anxious, and the other is old - forget everything." ”

"You can try this." Xiang Ling took out a few dead grasses.

Hua Jiuxi was dumbfounded when he saw it: "This is important evidence-"

"What evidence is not evidence, we are in the Daomen, there is a way." Worm Tianzi took the leaf in Xiang Ling's hand tremblingly, and even said, "Xie Long Niangniang, I'll fly a leaf." ”

The insect boy chicly—he could only use this adjective when he was rolling a cigarette—rubbed out a stick, lit it with a fire gourd, and took a slow puff.

The aroma instantly filled the entire basement, and Hua Jiuxi and Xiang Ling's minds suddenly calmed down.

"Awesome, what kind of incense is this?" Hua Jiuxi asked the insect Tianzi.

"It's like vanilla on a small island in Borneo – there are only a hundred or so in the world, and they are all concentrated on that small island." For this plant, the insect Tianzi only knows a rumor.

"This guy lying down is really powerful." Hua Jiuxi said.

"This leaf has been dried for at least two hundred years...... "If it weren't passed down from generation to generation, this person would have been either an immortal or a monster." ”

"Immortals can easily teach people to kill?" Hua Jiuxi smiled.

"I also think youkai have a big face." The Worm Son said, "How did you say this man died? ”

"Oh yes." Hua Jiuxi patted his head - there were no obvious external injuries on the deceased's body, so the cause of death must have been due to those two charms. He had been deciphering the sacred texts since he had been home yesterday, and had stayed up all night, and with the help of two dictionaries brought from the East, he had finally been able to identify most of the passages.

"The content of this incantation is - the Object Extraction Charm." Hua Jiuxi said, "That is, to take the object directly out of a certain enclosed space. ”

"So the dead had their hearts taken alive?" "And the unknown thing in the stomach, this is really harmful." ”

"That's how cruel the enemy is." Hua Jiuxi said, "If they are like this, we don't have any psychological burden to fight." ”

The Worm Heavenly Son was worried about Hua Jiuxi, and said slowly: "Dragon Girl, this kid is a little unaware of the height of the sky - you can take care of him a little more!" He arched his hand as he spoke.

"Well, I will." Xiang Ling responded to these words, but the weight was not small at all.

"Dissect the body and look at it - you'll see what's missing." Hua Jiuxi said, lifting his amber sword.

"No, this is a sacred relic of the Moths Society, you are not allowed to mess around like this!" The insect Tianzi blocked him, and he had an extra bamboo-colored knife in his hand.

He was extremely precise, and in three or five strokes, he cut open the left chest of the deceased - the ribs were empty, and the heart was indeed missing.

"Xiangling, you'd better not look at it." Hua Jiuxi reminded.

"It's nothing." Xiang Ling said.

"Don't you know how many demon heads Princess Xiangling has beheaded? Probably more than you've ever seen ants! Worm Tianzi sneered.

Hua Jiuxi only thought that Xiang Ling had killed people at first, but when he heard the exaggerated metaphor of the Insect Son of Heaven - Xiang Ling was simply a demon king.

"That's just being ignorant when I was a child, don't boast about it, old man." Xiang Ling said coldly.